Our team returned nine players for the coming season and we are bringing in five new players. Normally, integrating new players is relatively straight forward, but in this case all five of the new players are from the same team and have known each other for years. We will have two groups that already have connections among their members, but now connection between the two groups. We are planning to do all of the typical things like team building activities away from practice, mixing up practice partners religiously, talking and demonstrating our team's values, and bringing the new players players into the culture in a very intentional way. But, I wonder if there are any other ideas that coaches have tried when basically merging two distinct groups. Anything that might help ease the transition?